Validity of occupational histories from proxy respondents;Validade de histórias ocupacionais de informantes secundários

Revista de Saude Publica

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 522-528

  Cordeiro, Ricardo ^a,b  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^b NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Family; Interviews, utilization ; Occupational health ; Occupational history; Sensibility and specificity ; Validity ; Work, history ; Workers

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; CUSTODY; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATION; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD; STATISTICS; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; DATA COLLECTION; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY TAKING; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONS; PROXY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0034304229     PISSN: 00348910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/s0034-89102000000500013     Document Type: Article

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